Use "wick" in a sentence

1. The upper half of a broken lamp wedged them in, its charred wick still present

2. Waiting awhile for the leaf to brew, she watched Latrandura fill the bowl of her pipe, tamp it down and then light it from a wick

3. As he lit the wick inside the lantern, a song waved from his chest softly at

4. just the wick will remain

5. of the wick is placed over

6. Only the smell of the burnt wick, and the caretaker’s words, lingered

7. Like… there was one idiot who wanted to be looked at, so I had to stand beside him and gawk as though I was interested while he dipped his wick

8. As he cut, he blew—softer than the lowest whistle—and the white sparks jumped away from his face to the wick of the wax candle

9. The big man shrugged and turned to adjust the wick in the lantern

10. The flame gets larger as the wax above the wick melts quickly catching the carpet alight underneath

11. shelf and place the wick into the warm coals that were left from the recent fire in the

12. On his way back to the workshop he noticed the odor of the wick that Santa Sofía de la Piedad was using to light the stoves, and he waited in the kitchen for the coffee to boil so that he could take along his mug without sugar

13. Having a thin wick,

14. a small hole to place his homemade wick

15. The wick was

16. The papery wick was now

17. direction of the wick like something being struck by a magic

18. Even though the papery wick had been saturated in

19. grain alcohol, as the hours passed much of the wick had

20. pool of molten wax, the wick protruding limply from the centre

21. a steady flame began to burn on the wet wick of the

22. His golden, lever-action Cartier wick

23. It’s roots find itself in a ‘wicker,’ you know, the wick in a candle, it’s all twisted, twisted cord or ‘wicker,’ the twisting that causes people to get involved in spiritualism

24. When a lamp is kept where there is not a whiff of air, its wick burns

25. The spirit in the other abode will envelope the body and surround it from all sides as the flame of a candle completely surrounds its wick

26. In the other abode, the spirit will envelop the body and surround it on all sides, as the flame of a candle completely surrounds its wick

27. If we suppose that the wick of a candle is a body, then its flame and its light would be the spirit

28. For, his spirit was surrounding its body as the flame of a candle surrounds the wick from all direction

29. ” He leaned over and kissed my forehead, then turned down the lamp’s wick

30. Enough scant light spilled from the wick of my lantern to reveal a small personal traveling box that looked very familiar; it was caked in year’s worth of dust and grime

31. "I wonder how many other men in this town have dipped their wick in that well?"

32. It is so oily that it can be dried and then placed on the end of a stick with a piece of bark stuck into its mouth, and when that bark is lit it burns like a candle wick because of all the fish oil

33. “Unless it had a wick like a candle which was lit fi rst?” asked

34. “I’m the verbal-spit Smith Wesson, I unload with sick spit the quick wick could split a

35. split-second, bomb with a lit wick expression, you here a tick tick, then you testing…”

36. After a few short turns on the wheel, a steady flame began to burn on the wet wick of the lighter, bringing each candle into light

37. His golden, lever-action Cartier wick lighter was just shooting sparks as he turned the horizontal wheel that operated the flint

38. Snuffdishes: Used to catch the trimmed wick

39. Look with me please at verses 16 and 17 again: “This is what the Lord says—He who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick

40. struck one and lit the wick

41. Nor put out the smoldering wick

42. Accordingly, the wick is the top or head of the candle, where the fire burns

43. Accordingly, the wick is the

44. Also called a “cool mist” humidifier, this type of appliance uses a reservoir, wick, and filter to disperse room temperature water vapor into the air

45. A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it;

46. In the air there passed sooty albatross with four–meter wingspans, birds aptly dubbed "vultures of the ocean," also gigantic petrels including several with arching wings, enthusiastic eaters of seal that are known as quebrantahuesos,* and cape pigeons, a sort of small duck, the tops of their bodies black and white—in short, a whole series of petrels, some whitish with wings trimmed in brown, others blue and exclusive to these Antarctic seas, the former "so oily," I told Conseil, "that inhabitants of the Faroe Islands simply fit the bird with a wick, then light it up

47. The paper wick had sucked most of it into the fibers

48. This was her one and only back-up plan: to light the wick and throw the can on the roof

49. While I was considering that some one must have been there lately and must soon be coming back, or the candle would not be burning, it came into my head to look if the wick were long

50. It was still raining and the lamp in the cart was nearly out, so Sawkins trimmed the wick and relit it before they started

51. " The candle, half-consumed and burning dimly with a long wick, lighted up from below his inclined face, whose expression affected by the drawn-in cicatrices in the cheeks, had something vaguely unnatural, an exaggerated remorseful bitterness

52. The earl smiled at his friend’s expression, then flipped up a tight-fitting, hinged metal cover on one end of the device to reveal what looked like a lamp wick with a milled metal wheel bracketed in front of it

53. Thirsk’s thumb spun the wheel, and Hahlynd stepped back half a pace in surprise as a fountain of sparks leapt from the wheel to ignite the wick

54. The precise formation of the candle is not critical, but the body must be a narrow spread, with a deep lower wick

55. Here we will see high volume coupled with a candlestick which has a deep upper wick and narrow body, and is one of the most powerful combinations of price action and volume we will ever see on a chart

56. What is important, is the height of the wick, the repeated nature of this price action, and the associated high volumes

57. The length of any wick, either to the top or bottom of the candle is ALWAYS the first point of focus because it instantly reveals, impending strength, weakness, and indecision, and more importantly, the extent of any associated market sentiment

58. If no wick is created, then this signals strong market sentiment in the direction of the closing price

59. The open and close will be much the same, and there will always be a wick to the lower body

60. At this point Duke Energy attempts to move higher, but with a wick to the upper body of the candle, this is not a strong response, and the stock price falls further, but on average volumes

61. The next candle suggests weakness, a shooting star (although not at the top of a trend, weakness nevertheless with the deep upper wick) and above average volume

62. The next candle hints at stopping volume once again with a narrow spread and deep wick on very high volume

63. We are now paying attention as with this volume bar, the pair should have risen strongly, and clearly in the volume bar there is a large amount of selling, confirmed by the deep wick to the top of the candle

64. The next candle arrives, a hammer with a deep wick, and this confirms the previous candle

65. The next two candles are down, but the volume is falling, so we do not expect the market to move far, and indeed the lower wick on the second of these candles, is a clue that this is simply some early profit taking on the gap up open, and that the buyers are in control

66. What do we see here? First the shooting star sent a clear signal of weakness, and on our 15 minute chart this is reflected in two candles, with high volume on the up candle which is also topped with a deep wick to the upper body

67. That means, just when you need to deal, one of the machines may be having its wick trimmed or its elastic being changed

68. So, for instance, if there is a lot of wick above the candle there must have been a rally during the day that failed to hold and will have discouraged traders

69. Conversely a length of wick dangling out of the bottom (called the ‘hammer’) shows that an abundance of sellers threatened to push the market down but there were more than enough buyers to offset them, so the market bounced off the bottom, which gives promise of further rises

70. The wick of each candle runs from the low to the high that was reached

71. I mean, here, especially, I drew the line to the wick

72. Notice the long “candle wick” indicating that the stock was hitting some serious resistance at the 50-day line

73. In the farthest corner, on a bench beside a bed on which something was lying, stood a tallow candle with a long, thick, and smoldering wick

74. at the head of the bed and around the candle beside him, the wick of which was charred and

75. There was a wood- burning hearth which mercifully was out, and a wick burning oil stove; this

76. He examined the flame of the candle with a stupid air, and from around the wick he took some of the burning wax, which he rolled between his fingers

77. “Why wouldn’t I?” The candlelight flared in his eyes, as if I had raised the wick to quicken the flare

78. He seized the candle in his fist, and set it on the chimney-piece with so violent a bang that the wick came near being extinguished, and the tallow bespattered the wall

79. “I have Wick over there watching the place, and I can tell you that we’d be better off trying to break into Fort Knox

80. “What have we got, Wick?”

81. Wick was a full five inches shorter than him but, knowing the plan, he’d made the shelter a perfect fit for his boss

82. “Roger that,” Wick responded

83. “Wick said he’d be ready to go in four and a half minutes

84. Wick and McGraw were out of visual range, but they would have stopped, too, in order to keep the intervals he’d stipulated

85. Here the socket of the candle dropped, and the wick

86. Cotton acts like a wick, absorbing moisture

87. Animal fats: These can also be used with a wick in a suitably ventilated tin to make a stove

88. On the tent-pole the lamplight yellowed and dropped to the wick

89. The shade screeched up, and she lighted the wick

90. She lighted the wick, watched it burn blue for a moment and then put up its yellow, delicately curved ring of light

91. The second signal we look for that warns us that the market is contemplating a reversal is a candle that has a long wick (sometimes called a “shadow”) when compared to the size of its body